Tag Archives: human rights

Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Shi landed in trouble three years ago when the Chinese government prohibited journalists to report on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
When Shi forwarded the notice to human rights groups, the Chinese government pressured Yahoo to give them the name of the account holder, and they did so. Shi [...]

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2012 Olympic Games

October 12, 2007 – 1:05 pm

This message was not brought to you by the real Olympic Games, but is instead a demonstration of the free speech which the folks who run Olympic Games are trying to kill. Why should you care? David Edgar puts it pretty well:
By declaring images, titles and now words to be ownable brands, these various [...]

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US Government’s Slippery Slope Into Our Lives Doesn’t Excuse China or the US Companies that Help China

August 14, 2007 – 9:09 am

There was an article on TechDirt yesterday that made an interesting connection and then bizarrely came up with a ridiculous conclusion.
The article pointed to a NY Times article about China’s high-tech surveillance campaign backed by technology from US companies, and connects that to two Boston Globe articles about the US efforts to track its citizens[1][2].
The [...]

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